The law includes injuries that happen:
- At public and private hospitals
- General practicing doctors and doctors from the emergency service
- General practicing medical specialists
- General practicing chiropractors, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and podiatrists
- General practicing nurses, midwives, clinical dietitians, medical laboratory technicians, surgical appliance makers, radiographers, opticians/contact lens opticians and social and health care workers
- Authorized healthcare workers within the public health care services and the regional dental care etc.
- Treatment in the ambulance or at the site of the injury
- Injuries to donors or participants in medical trials
- Preventative health-care systems for children and teenagers, the home nursing care system, dental care, dental care for children and teenagers, offers of rehabilitation and treatment for alcohol and drug abuse
- Treatment carried out by health personnel deployed in a prison or at a military base
- Injuries which occured in the Faroe Islands as of 2012